Photographic evidence is becoming increasingly vulnerable to forms of alteration and fabrication that existing legal and technical workflows are not well equipped to evaluate. Surveillance frames, das...
arXiv:2609.37783v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Photographic evidence is becoming increasingly vulnerable to forms of alteration and fabrication that existing legal and technical workflows are not...
By Kelly McConvey, Sajad Ebrahimi, Nima Jamali, Jalehsadat Mahdavimoghaddam, Matina Mahdizadeh Sani, Maksym Taranukhin, Wentao Zhang, Jacquelyn Burkell, Yuntian Deng, Karen Eltis, Maura R. Grossman, Vered Shwartz, Ebrahim Bagheri
arXiv:2606. 07613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual evidence has long been treated as a reliable form of legal proof, but advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are undermining that assumption.
By Jinzhe Tan, Ali Ekber Cinar, Karim Benyekhlef
arXiv:2604. 02694v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid progress of generative AI has enabled increasingly realistic text-centric image forgeries, posing major challenges to document safety.
By Fanwei Zeng, Changtao Miao, Jing Huang, Zhiya Tan, Shutao Gong, Xiaoming Yu, Yang Wang, Weibin Yao, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Jianshu Li, Ying Yan
The paper investigates an agentic framework for open‑world fake image detection that combines specialist detectors with per‑detector triage, prompting, and conflict‑aware evidence arbitration. Experiments across six configurations and three multimodal large language model backbones reveal that naive detector fusion yields high false‑positive rates, while triage and prompting consistently filter unreliable evidence. The most significant improvement comes from the reasoning component: a stronger judge markedly outperforms a weaker one, especially under distribution shift, and overall manipulation recall is nearly saturated, highlighting that the key challenge lies in calibrating trust and arbitrating conflicting forensic evidence rather than detecting manipulations themselves.
By Xianlong Li (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy), Pietro Bongini (University of Siena, Italy), Niccol\'o Pancino (University of Siena, Italy), Marco Blanchini (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy), Benedetta Tondi (University of Siena, Italy), Mauro Barni (University of Siena, Italy)
arXiv:2608. 08009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fake news increasingly relies on cross-modal image-text forgeries, making transparent and verifiable reasoning chains an urgent need for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation (DGM4).
By Yichun Yeh, Yiheng Li, Xiaobo Hu, Zhen Lei, Yang Yang
arXiv:2606.17467v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Prompt injection defenses evaluated on synthetic benchmarks do not generalize to real enterprise documents, which are longer, denser, and int...
By Aaditya Pai
arXiv:2608. 06865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The malicious use of generative artificial intelligence to create highly realistic deepfake videos raises serious ethical concerns and poses substantial challenges to AI safety.
By Xuechao Zou, Shun Zhang, Kai Li, Yi Zhou, Xinyu Sun, Yuhui Chen, Zhe Wu, Congyan Lang, Junliang Xing
arXiv:2501. 14728v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models have achieved significant success, their misuse for generating deceptive content raises growing concerns about online information security.
By Zehong Yan, Peng Qi, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee
The paper introduces OBJECTION, an inference-time pipeline that adds an Adversarial Lawyer Agent to each of the three reasoning steps—offense, unlawfulness, and culpability—in legal judgment prediction models. By actively injecting defense arguments, the agent challenges the model’s default assumption of guilt, which is common in datasets biased toward guilty outcomes. Using a new Natural Innocent dataset of 3.4k real cases, OBJECTION reduces the False Guilty Rate from 82.93% to 16.69%, demonstrating significant improvement in substantive legal reasoning.
By Jaehoon Jeong, Jay-Yoon Lee
arXiv:2609.14352v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI-generated image detection has attracted increasing attention, but existing evaluations mainly focus on natural images, leaving AI-generated document...
By Zhangjie Fu, Jiazhen Yan, Yuanwen Chen, Xinquan Yu, Yanzhe Li, Hui Jiang, Lei Gao, Chenfu Bao
FORGE is a forensic deepfake analysis system that provides region‑grounded natural language explanations for image manipulations. It addresses the inductive bias mismatch of multimodal large language models by adding a Vision‑Only Model trained on dense patch prediction, allowing the language model to interleave tokens with preserved spatial correspondence. Across face‑manipulated and fully synthetic content, FORGE delivers fine‑grained attribute queries and outperforms in‑domain baselines, with region‑specific evaluation and human studies confirming explanation faithfulness.
By Rohit Kundu, Shan Jia, Vishal Mohanty, Athula Balachandran, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury